How to find an honest mechanic? Call AAA? The BBB? Or see if you can devise your own method? Listen while Tom and Ray try to help Bruce from Phoenix come up with a test to vet his local grease monkeys. More calls and a new puzzler right here on The Best of Car Talk!

Like a lot of callers, Kasey from Minnesota is hoping for some good news about her problem Honda Civic. Hard to imagine that a car that sprays oil all over the engine compartment at a rate of a quart per tank-of-gas is going to generate good news, but the brothers manage it somehow. This, more calls and a new puzzler right here on the Best of Car Talk.

Carolyn lives just around the corner from 'our fair city' and is married to a former automotive safety engineer who apparently can't let go of his old job. He wants Carolyn to wear a bike helmet while driving -just for a little extra safety. Is this a case of inspired innovation, Social suicide?(Yep) or both? Check it out -along with the return of the puzzler- on this episode of the Best of Car Talk!

Lisa from Washington, DC was told by her mechanic that she doesn't drive her VW Golf often enough and that this will lead to all sorts of mechanical malfunction in the car's future. Tom and Ray try to explain why cars that only travel a few miles per day are prone to certain failures. Lisa thinks that an 'Italian Tune-up' should cure it. Find out why on this episode of the Best of Car Talk!

Most of us have had that family member who went off the deep end with some cockamamie diet or exercise or other 'miracle cure' for something. But the health and wellness industry has nothing on the world of automotive miracle cures. Stu from Maryland may be inadvertently on to something thanks to a recent maintenance mix-up on his Nissan. Find out what on this episode of The Best of Car Talk!

Reggie from South Carolina noticed an odor coming from her car's air conditioning that smelled suspiciously like the stink of the kids in her car pool. Will the dealer's remedy for the problem work or will the ac and the kids continue to duke it out for 'stink supremacy' until one of them wins, Reggie perishes or both? Find out on this episode of The Best of Car Talk!

Vacation is tough work! Especially if you're an academic like Tom and you have a hard time keeping all of your holidays, Spring Breaks and Sabbaticals straight. Following several weeks of time off from sweating over a hot microphone the boys are back and ready to dispense more questionable car advice.

A lot of listeners want to know where Tom and Ray latched onto phrases like 'Don't drive like my Brother!' or 'No matter what it is, it's gonna cost you $200, if that's what it is.' Well ok, very few listeners actually asked, but the puzzler's still on vacation and there's a lot of air time to fill, alright? Enjoy this week's offering from the 'Car Talk Folklore Dissemination Division': "Sonja Henie's Tutu!'

Automakers are legendary for developing new ways to sell more cars. But cruise control, abs and premium sound systems have nothing on 'Fahrvergnugen'. What's 'Fahrvergnugen'? Find out(or not) on today's Best of Car Talk.

Donna is tired of boring cars so she just went out and bought herself a new Mazda Miata convertible. Donna's husband convinced her that the car's "break-in period" is critical to the long, trouble-free life of the car's engine, so he really should be driving it now as a 'favor' to her. Yes, Donna's husband is a lout, but will Tom and Ray expose his ruse? Find out on today's Best of Car Talk.